It’s day four of this years first 21 day declutter challenge.
A few years back, I would buy a lot (a lot) of magazines every month. They were mostly interior/garden magazines, with a few technical ones thrown in. I have also been subscribing to a private economy magazine for years.
Around comes 2014 and I decided that one of the goals that year was to massively reduce the books/magazines I would buy. I did so well during 2014 that I continued in 2015 and also 2016. With the exception on the private economy magazine that I get 11 times a year, I think I have bought something like 3 maybe 4 magazines since the end of 2013.
As I love browsing through interior and garden magazines, I have kept a few of my old ones, all the ones that had good articles or was just fun to browse through for an home/garden “pick me up” 🙂
That was until a couple of day ago, when I decided it was time to let them go. Since some of the magazines still had some valid articles/photos, I decided to keep those particular ones.
What I have done over the years (every time I clear out my magazines) is to tear out stuff I would like to keep and I collect them all in a small magazine box.
When I need a interior/garden “hit”, I will sit down with my box and look through it all. If anything in the box no longer takes my fancy, I will get rid off it. This way my tear out magazines box never fills up.
So the last few days, I’ve been going through my favorite magazines, and torn out goodies 🙂
The result?
A small pile to keep, and 58 magazines out-the door!
Minimalist Sometimes 
awesome!!
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Thanks.. slowly but surely.. there WILL be less stuff in the house (I hope) 😉
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You are re-inspiring me to get back to the paper purge, Anne!!
After my 7 seconds series, that is!
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I’m with you on that one… I’ve been working a little on the paper stuff during the flu.. my next post (hopefully tomorrow) will show the result of that particular task 😉 Still have loads of paper to go through… next month maybe?
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Whenever you can, my Queen! Don’t push yourself too hard. You’ve been too sick for too long already!
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It’s been a few rough years, yes… and health is a bit up and down, but I sure can’t let that stop my from decluttering, you know 😉
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I know you won’t! Just please, be kind to yourself!
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I will.. thank you, sweet girl
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So very welcome!
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Good for you, Anne. I did the same with Florida Life magazines last year ~ kept one issue and ripped out a few articles and recycled the rest of the stack.
Our library has a spot to drop off magazines for others to use and peruse. We drop off magazines there (after cutting off our name and address)
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Waiting rooms are also a great place to “drop off” some of our magazines, but this time around they were really old (2010-2012) and since they were mostly interior magazines you know everything in them were already outdated. So they went in the recycle bin.
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58! That’s awesome!! Yay!!! I love getting rid of magazines. I had a couple that I was keeping but finally got rid of them.
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Yeah, I’m down to just 3 or 4 now, for my own browsing needs 😉 it was great to see them go out the door!
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